Friedrich Jeckeln

Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895-3 February 1946) was an SS police leader and Obergruppenfuhrer in Nazi Germany during World War II. He was one of the worst Einsatzgruppen leaders, massacring 100,000 Jews, Slavs, and Romani.

Biography
Friedrich Jeckeln was born on 2 February 1895 in Hornberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire. Jeckeln served in World War I and joined the Nazi Party in 1929 and the SS, and in 1936 he was made commander of the SS in western Germany. Jeckeln was made Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia after Operation Barbarossa, and he was responsible for all anti-partisan operations and mass executions that took place. Among his war crimes were the Rumbula massacre, Babi Yar massacre, and Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre, and the Einsatzgruppen units under his command killed 100,000 Jews, Slavs, and Romani. He was tried before a Soviet Union military court in Riga in January-February 1946, and he was hanged on 3 February 1946.